ROCHESTER, NEW YORK – October 15, 2009 - Sutherland Global Services, a leading multi-national Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) provider, is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Dialogues Tour.

The Frederick Douglass Dialogues will be presented in middle schools, high schools and colleges across the country to help give students and their teachers a unique perspective on the institution of slavery and how it was abolished.

Using the Internet and their vast social networks, the Tour teaches students about the crisis of modern-day slavery, human trafficking and how they have the power to affect today’s human rights challenges. The Tour also seeks to inspire students to develop their own campaigns to stop the exploitation of trafficking, particularly of young people. There are more men, women and children today being bought, sold and enslaved than at any other time in history.

The Dialogues Tour will be presented by Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., President of the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation, who is also a direct descendant of both Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington. The Tour will visit 50 schools in 50 days and will reach more than 50,000 students and 1,500 teachers and administrators. Held Sept. 21 – Nov. 11, 2009, the Tour is making 12 stops across the country, including:

Atlanta, Ga. Oct. - 14-16
Southern California - Oct. 17-23
Northern California - Oct. 26-30
Las Vegas, Nev. - Nov. 9-11

The Tour has already visited New York, NY, New Bedford, MA, Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA in September, and Rochester, NY, Philadelphia, PA, and Washington DC earlier this month.

“With the support of Sutherland Global Services, we will be able to reach 20,000 more students and teachers than we did in 2008,” said the Frederick Douglass Family Foundation Founder and Chairwoman Nettie Washington Douglass. “We are looking forward to bringing this inspirational message to students across the country.”

Sutherland Global Services Charitable Giving
Sutherland and its employees have a longstanding history of generosity and support of our communities. To maximize the company’s impact in supporting worthy local and global causes, Sutherland established a global Charitable Mission Statement in 2007. It is the charitable mission of Sutherland Global Services to stand firmly behind causes and technologies which foster, support and assist in advancing Global Youth.

About Sutherland Global Services
A global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and IT Enabled Services Company, Sutherland Global Services offers an integrated set of front and back office services that support the entire customer lifecycle. By combining highly trained people with state-of-the-art technology and proven business methodologies, Sutherland collaborates with clients to help them excel in their industry while maximizing their customers’ lifetime value. Having started operations in 1986 in Rochester, New York, Sutherland now employs over 24,000 professionals offering Right Sourced seamlessly blended services from its 24 delivery centers in the United States, India, the Philippines, Canada, Mexico and Bulgaria. Sutherland is the largest independent BPO Company with a strong commitment to a diverse workforce. For more information please visit www.sutherlandglobal.com